Damian Thompson is Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was once described by The Church Times as a "blood-crazed ferret". He is on Twitter as HolySmoke. His latest book is The Fix: How addiction is taking over your world. He also writes about classical music for The Spectator.

1. Do Catholic schools need to be state-funded? Doesn't that compromise their ability to develop a true Catholic model of education?

2. The Catholic Education Service under Oona Stannard is really quite "secular" in its understanding of Catholic values. I've seen many CES documents that are couched in the same PC jargon as government directives. Yet Archbishop Nichols has never criticised the CES.

3. Americans have a more developed spirituality than we do. Yet their state schools ban religious instruction from the classroom. Worth bearing in mind, no?

4. The Archbishop is right about the dangers of an exam-passing culture, but it would be nice, JUST ONCE, to hear a Catholic bishop point out the obvious – that the exams themselves are so easy to pass as to damage children's education.

5. There seems to be an understanding that "faith schools" should stick together. What about Muslim schools that teach contempt for British values? They exist, but Catholic bishops don't want to go there, do they?